By 2016, India to Have 10 New Green Supercomputers

New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- The government is planning to build at least 10 green supercomputers by March next year and install them in select universities and colleges, in a move aimed at boosting high-performance computing and high-end interdisciplinary research.

Besides being cost effective, these computers will also be built to consume less power.

"Green supercomputers with a different cooling technology have many advantages. This is the need of the hour... We are planning to build all the 73 supercomputers in the green category," said Professor Rajat Moona, director general of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing that gave India her first supercomputer.

The first executive board meeting of the National Supercomputing Mission was held earlier this month and it was decided to form five committees to oversee implementation of this mission.

The seven-year plan has been divided into two phases - the first three years for construction of the machines and the next four for the applications that will use this grid. The supercomputers will occupy a space of over 20,000 square feet.

These 10 supercomputers will be among the 73 supercomputing facilities planned by the government under a ' 4,500crore mission, jointly steered by the departments of science and technology and electronics and information technology. …

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